After 12 years of living with their parents, a pair of Russian girls discovered that they have been accidentally switched at birth. However, even after meeting their real mothers, the two girls still chose to stay with the parents who raised them rather than with their biological parents.

The two girls from the town of Kopeisk in the Ural Mountains of eastern Russia lived just a few miles from each other. They were born in 1999 just 15 minutes apart in the same maternity ward. It was only 12 years after that their mothers discovered that their babies were negligently given the wrong name tags. [Read more…]